31 Days of God-Woven Moments – October 24

Upon graduating from college, I could see that I had gone to school and taken all of the courses I HAD to in order to graduate, but had not taken ONE class just for fun! So in the 1970s, I attended an adult education class in weaving. I learned the basics and then kept taking courses, kept experimenting, kept trying to make art out of something which I knew was really just a hobby. But I was enjoying it all so much.

I learned to spin various wools, including sheep, of course, goat, camel, alpaca, llama, cotton, and probably a few others. I learned to use the drop spindle, the Navajo spindle and a spinning wheel. I learned to dye to yarns. I even had a sheep-shearing experience. I wanted to learn the whole process.

I wove on what we call off-loom although the hoop or the frame is the loom, but it was making an individual loom. Later on, I actually made a loom similar to a Navajo loom where I made this first large one (below). It is actually four and a half feet by five and a half feet, all handspun yarns. I made one larger than this and it was a commissioned piece. Cool!

I often do not have a plan when I start. I just go with the flow and have fun!

I made up my own design using a crochet hook and needles for this light colored one with thin yarns.

The colored one is geometric using cotton yarns.

Blues and grays make up this very geometric and symmetrical circle of wool yarns.

A woven wool wheel with a center was not easy, keeping the center wheel in its balanced place, but I did it and have had this one many years.

This one below is woven of handspun wool in the grays and tonal pinks, and store-bought yarns in the black, pink, and purple. It was fun to make geometry take on new avenues as I went.

And these two on this collage are unique. I was daydreaming one day and wanted to try a very thin and strong thread and wrap the warp completely around the frame. I began weaving the design on the front and realized that I could make it three-dimensional by weaving on both the front and back warps. The darker one is of a snowy day in the forest and the lighter is a seascape.

God gave me creativity and this is one avenue that I found for His beauty and fun to flow from me. I have done this since the mid 1970s, although am not doing it now for physical reasons, but still love the art. I appreciate others for the doing.

I have some yarns that one day I may make into a basket. I have done that before as well as quilting, crocheting and knitting. God will keep His creation creating, I am sure.

Father, my Creator, thank You for gifting me with talents that flow and are fun. Thank You for allowing me to create pieces that have been enjoyed by others and even bought by some. Thank You for all of the teachers You have given me along the way. I am so grateful and delighted to have done this. I may not have known to give You the glory then, but I do now. Oh, how I do! In the Name of Jesus. Amen.

To catch up on the previous days of this 31 day challenge, you can find them listed here.

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I am a quiet woman growing each day in the LORD.
Christ is my home. He is the well from which I drink. I became His 25 years ago. I am 71 so that is actually a small percentage of my life through which I could have walked closely with Him. No matter, He never stopped waiting for me.
I am now a widow from a Christ-centered marriage of 25 years to Kenneth. I praise God for him. I miss him so. We had no children.
I feel God’s call to be His light in this dark world. I am grateful for the love God gives to me so I may give it away.
I live in Lufkin, Texas, USA (in Deep East Texas/Pineywoods). I have taught Women’s Sunday School/Bible Study, co-administrated/taught a teen girls’ annual conference. I participate in women’s Bible studies in church as well as on my own. I am a retired elementary school teacher, having taught in California, Washington, D.C., and have taught older children and adults in Oregon and Texas. I also retired from being a children’s librarian in the public library system, a job I thoroughly loved. I tutored primary-aged children who are falling behind in those early years of school until we moved in May 2017.
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The LORD your God is in your midst,
a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.
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As the moments of each day meld together to form my outer world, so, too, do thoughts, studies, and prayers illuminate my inner world. Journaling is my way toward clarity and peace as I process the study of God’s Word, the books I read, my reactions to the world around me and to the intertwined global world. My heart thoughts become my journal thoughts.

As God interlaces the threads of the woof and the warp of my life, I become less like Linda and more like Christ Jesus.

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